[SpamCop-List] Re: Empty spam

[user at domain.invalid]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <ctj029$see$1 at news.spamcop.net>, user at domain.invalid writes:
> 
>>lebrad wrote:
>>
>>>I seem to be receiving a lot of spam with no subject and no content. Why 
>>>would someone want to send me spam with no message? 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I have the impression this is not spam
> 
> 
> Meaning the recipient requested it ?
> Or meaning that it only happened once ?

No this is not what I meant. I have been watching this for quite some 
time now. Did you ever have doubled, tripled ... mails? At one time I 
watched this, it seemed to happen at certain intervals. The headers
showed rather complicated patterns. Like being sent at certain time 
intervals with a third diverted somewhere on the line as if hold 
somewhere and then moved on.

First they arrived at different time. Which showed in my mailbox.
The second and third being higher up. Then something got fixed. And 
while they arrived later the neatly appeared next to each other now.
But the headers showed still traces of their different roads through the 
web.

Later the **empty mails*** appeared. At that point I was accustomed to
take a closer look. Checking the headers - sorry no systematic exercise 
although I came close to it ... but mainly checking the headers.

And then I realized the empty ones sometimes where just parts of 
ordinary mails. That is sometimes even mails I received too. Part of its 
header part of it's body end. No recognizable pattern, but something cut 
up in an unknown process.

Sometimes they were parts of mails I received from a list or received 
sooner or later ...

> 
> 
>>but cut up emails who float 
>>around the net. I am watching this for quite some time now. It stopped
>>and now it starts again.
> 
> 
> Email does not "float around" - it gets sent by someone.
> 
I am no expert ... I wish I were. But even scientist need imagination.
And out there on the net is much information about people that is quite 
valuable. Not only to spammers.
> 
>>It probably is connected with some other web activity filtering the 
>>mails on their road on the net for contents information about the users.
> 
> 
> Even if it were triggered by a technical error, it is still spam:
> 
> 	Unsolicited Bulk Email
> 
> Spam is a matter of conSent not conTent.

Yes true, you have to use the delete button no matter if it is a 
technically produced bit or a whole one. But the bit can still have a 
different origin, not quite functioning excursions into fields not 
altogether known  - not quite working yet

KRAUT